Inch-Time, Thought Objects (3

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Stefan Panczak debuted as Inch-Time on Static Caravan with a full-length CD released a little more than a year ago. Now he delivers a slimmer slice of music, which comes in a small, square brown envelope you must slice into with a letter opener. Inside, a sheet featuring a humourous drawing and the barest essentials about the contents of the work. Music and package both seem to convey some sort of communication about a journey and a return.

What begins with soft, Buddish minimalist piano is tranformed into a foray into a Far East of the mind consisting of Tibetan-sounding bells and gongs (and other, more prosaic sounds, like what may be a spoon stirring tea in a cup?); eventually the circular narrative returns us to the reassuring timbres of the familiar, if slightly treated, baby grand.

Given that there are two "thought objects" on the disc, each almost exactly the same length, its is almost as if the story plays out in part one, then retraces its steps back to its origins in the soft caresses of the piano keys...although this is not the case, exactly. A beautiful little thing.

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